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To be sure, chamber music is an experience for the ears, a chance to bathe the auditory nerves in the sounds of intertwined instrumental lines. However, it's also an experience for the eyes. When you get to watch chamber music being played, you see the instruments in animated conversation, completing each other's sentences, topping each other's hyperbole, sympathizing with each other's laments and also having the occasional spat.
This fall at the Hop, your ears and eyes can take in a variety of chamber music, beginning with the Emerson String Quartet—“the one indispensable quartet” … [Read more...]

On the weekend of September 16-17 in St. Louis, MO, demonstrators and protesters took to the streets after the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stockley was announced. Stockley was tried for the deadly shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, that took place in 2011. A group of St. Louis activists, police officers and community members were not on the scene in that city, however, but in Hanover, NH.
Theater of War Productions brought Antigone in Ferguson to The Moore Theater of the Hopkins Center for the Arts on September 15 and 16. The event included gospel songs, … [Read more...]

Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas.
We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall.
Hollye Swinehart '18 spent most of her childhood in Collingswood, NJ. She is studying studio art and … [Read more...]

Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas.
We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall.
Haley Gordon '18, from Elkins Park, PA, is a double major in theater and government who is interning … [Read more...]

Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas.
We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall.
Madeline Miller ‘18 is a cognitive science major from Anchorage, Alaska. She is interning for the … [Read more...]

Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas.
We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall.
Jules Wheaton '19 is from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is majoring in art history and government with … [Read more...]

Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas.
We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall.
Caroline Filan '18, from Alpharetta, GA, is majoring in biomedical engineering and minoring in … [Read more...]

Professors Stewart and Gómez wrote the following essay for the playbill for the Hopkins Center of the Arts presentation of Theater of War Production's Antigone in Ferguson, September 15 and 16.
By Roberta Stewart, Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College, and Christina Gómez, Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Visiting Professor, Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies and Sociology, Dartmouth College
In The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today (2016) Bryan Doerries calls himself a “self-proclaimed … [Read more...]

Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas.
We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall.
Maggie Baird ‘18, from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, is majoring in linguistics and minoring in … [Read more...]

World-renowned for stunning precision, rich tonal colors and joyous music-making, the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performs on Wednesday, September 13 at 7 pm in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The artists will also take part in a post-performance Q&A.
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) will perform a program including the Hop co-commissioned Road to the Sun, written expressly for the group by jazz master Pat Metheny. Complementing this expansive musical journey are LAGQ’s own arrangements of J.S. Bach’s spirited Brandenburg Concerto … [Read more...]